Dear All!I'm planing buy equipment for shooting 360 tour. My target is to capture full 360x180 interior and exterios panoramas for 360 tours. Could you guys please comment if I'm on the right track or please give your suggestions..

Thanks a lot @HansKeesom. I just ordered Nodal ninja 4 which comes with RD 16 rotator. (NN4 w/ RD16-II Advanced Rotator (F4503)Regarding stitching we already bought Kolor panotour pro 2.0 and we also have PTgui for stitching.Also the reason why I didn't wanted to go for Epic pro is I don't feel much attraction to epic pro as a business man but yea as a hobbyist I would love to have one because I'm more interested in taking full spherical panorama not just Hi-resolution 360 pictures.I tried google quickly if Epic Pro can give full spherical 360x180 but I couldn't get any positive answers and I really had to order by today as I'm in the middle of a project.Big thanks for suggestions really appreciated. you gave me confident before I made my orders.

taimooriqbal wrote:Thanks a lot @HansKeesom. I just ordered Nodal ninja 4 which comes with RD 16 rotator. (NN4 w/ RD16-II Advanced Rotator (F4503)Regarding stitching we already bought Kolor panotour pro 2.0 and we also have PTgui for stitching.Also the reason why I didn't wanted to go for Epic pro is I don't feel much attraction to epic pro as a business man but yea as a hobbyist I would love to have one because I'm more interested in taking full spherical panorama not just Hi-resolution 360 pictures.I tried google quickly if Epic Pro can give full spherical 360x180 but I couldn't get any positive answers and I really had to order by today as I'm in the middle of a project.Big thanks for suggestions really appreciated. you gave me confident before I made my orders.

Good luck with your first project. If you need any help, feel free to ask for it here, in a PM or on skype : hanskeesom.

Using a big ballhead one should be able to make full 360*180 using the epic pro but boy is that the long and hard way home..... Epic pro is not for fishey 360*180 panoramas. It is best to be used for longer lens partial panoramas.

Hope you did order the nadir adapter.

Hope you will be able to stitch everything with PTGUI, if not dropbox them to me on hans@alsofjeerbent.nl Maybe you/we should do a test first to see if your shooting pattern and NN4 settings are correct/optimal.

Regards, Hans KeesomI stitch and render for other photographers. Price: 25 euro or less, no cure no pay. If you want to concentrate on your business let me do the stitching for you. Free TB of Dropbox space when you have more then 250 euro business a year.

taimooriqbal wrote:Thanks a lot @HansKeesom. I just ordered Nodal ninja 4 which comes with RD 16 rotator. (NN4 w/ RD16-II Advanced Rotator (F4503)Regarding stitching we already bought Kolor panotour pro 2.0 and we also have PTgui for stitching.Also the reason why I didn't wanted to go for Epic pro is I don't feel much attraction to epic pro as a business man but yea as a hobbyist I would love to have one because I'm more interested in taking full spherical panorama not just Hi-resolution 360 pictures.I tried google quickly if Epic Pro can give full spherical 360x180 but I couldn't get any positive answers and I really had to order by today as I'm in the middle of a project.Big thanks for suggestions really appreciated. you gave me confident before I made my orders.

Do NOT get an Epic Pro for shooting 360x180 panos.

It is not designed for that purpose and will not do it well; as Hans said it is deigned for shooting particular panos (panos with a HFOV of much less than 360 and a VFOV of much less than 180)with longer focal length lenses.

mediavets wrote:...... it is deigned for shooting particular panos (panos with a HFOV of much less than 360 and a VFOV of much less than 180)with longer focal length lenses.

Recently shot a 1000 picture panorama at 200 mm using my NN5, no problem. Was happy not to have an epic pro because I was standing on a boat that was going up and down, left and right, would not have worked with an epic pro ;-)